• A few months ago newspapers in the Los Angeles area of California carried an unusual advertisement. Underneath a stark black...

• Hauliers will soon be able to judge how well a driver is trained before they take him on by using a list which grades HGV...

• Many drivers are being unfairly accused for using overloaded vehicles because the authorities take the easy course instead of...

• The company at the centre of the Iraqi "Supergun" affair which sub-contracted Paul Ashwell is on the brink of going into...

• Bobby Heaton, managing director of Heatons Transport, has become the 24th chairman of the RHA (see page 22). Barry Hempsall,...

• Hundreds of would-be Scottish lorry drivers face delays of up to six weeks for their provisional HGV licences, following a...

• Mightyhire of Hull has had its licence revoked after managing director Philip Barker pleaded guilty to 22 specimen charges of...

Money and let ters are ideas still pouring in to sup port Commercial Motor's Wheel Loss Campaign. Kenneth Webster of Barnsley...

• The long-awaited new tractor from Renault has finally broken cover. Highlights include a 16-litre Mack vee eight packing a...

• Four of the 10 winners in the Commercial Motor! Eberspacher competition to win a D1L'C' night heater collected their prizes...

• The EC Commission is drafting new legislation to protect workers who handle heavy loads. In reworking its original...

• Since its launch at the Amsterdam Show two months ago, Leyland Daf's new 2700 medium-range tractor for 2838-tonne GCW work...

test centre • Mercedes-Benz has finally launched the more powerful five-cylinder versions of its T1 van and chassis-cab range....

• Ricardo has opened a refinement centre at its Shoreham-by-Sea site. The centre comprises six echo-free noise test cells, for...

• Stewart Nlyhill of Foulsham, Norfolk has produced a body kit for Scania tractive units. The Judge Scania Aerodynamic Body Kit...

• Braintree-based trailer builder Hoyner has supplied Mainland Car Deliveries of Cheshire with 10 car transporters, capable of...

• Swedish truckmaker Volvo predicts that the environmentally friendly truck of the early 21st century will run on alcohol-based...

• Parcels carrier Lynx plans to shift the thrust of its business away from express parcels into semi-dedicated parcels, which...

• Tough times in the trailer and bodybuilding market have taken their toll on a further two companies. Coachwork Walker, went...

• Volvo has suffered a fall of nearly 50% in the first quarter profits for 1990. Income was 2104m in the first three months,...

• Hays Interbond, the specialist wines and spirits distributor, has won a contract with Eurobrands for the consolidation,...

• Exel Logistics has moved into book transport with the acquisition of Britain's largest independent book distributor....

• More than 200 jobs are to be axed at AWD's Dunstable manufacturing plant; reducing the workforce by nearly 25%. In all 112...

• North London-based Fastway International Transport is on the verge of a takeover deal as part of an expansion plan for its...

• Rainham, Essex-based S Portors Haulage's eightvehicle international licence has been revoked by Metropolitan Licensing...

• Fines for overloading offences imposed on two operators and their drivers have been slashed at Bristol Crown Court. Three...

• Gloucester tipper operator Mervyn Freeman blamed a batch of faulty brake linings for an immediate prohibition imposed on one...

• Cardiff-based Red Dragon Driving School has been fined £850 by the Pontypridd Magistrates for taking HGV learner drivers out...

• A Leeds Industrial Tribunal has ordered international haulier G R Tate to pay a driver £372.81 after it decided that Tate had...

• Colefordbased Henry Cole has had his licence renewed for 18 months only by Western Deputy LA John Robins, following his third...

• An operator remains responsible for the maintenance of all vehicles specified on his licence, even when they are no longer...

• Trent-owned Barton Buses has re-organised its services, disposing of 10 vehicles and closing a depot at Highcross Street,...

• Stratford-based Guide Friday's challenge on Oxford City sightseeing work has now emerged as 'The Oxford Classic Tour'. Set...

• Volvo Bus and Steyr Daimler Puch are to form a jointlyowned company on 1 July, to which Steyr will transfer all of its bus...

• South Yorkshire independent operator Wigmores of Dinnington has bought the goodwill of Coopers Travel of Killamarsh from the...

• Clerical staff at Western Scottish have started a series of strikes in pursuit of a £30-aweek wage claim, following a...

• Luton and District Transport has taken over two-thirds of Sovereign Bus and Coach's Stevenage operation, including the...

• Wicklow Bus Company of Ireland, is offering Asco van conversions based on the Leyland Daf 400 and Mercedes 408. The Asco...

• Optare is poised to become part of the Daf empire, following an offer, believed to be in the region of £5m, which would put...

• Bobby Heaton has two claims to fame. First, he took the Transport and General Workers Union to court in 1972 — he lost, but...

BY THE HAWK Here is the solution to Prize Crossword 8. The first correct answers out of the hat will win a CM polo shirt. •...

He is conscious that bus drivers often receive little training after they pass their PSV test, and he is running a pilot course...

• Training could be one of the casualties of the many changes that have taken place in the bus industry over the past five...

• The Lake District seems an unlikely place to find French students training to become lorry drivers. But each year, Odile...

• Adrian Pulleyn has a simple approach to making money; for the best profits, fmd an area of business where not many other...

He swears by his Mercedes rigids, but swears at his Mercedes tractors: "We've had lots of problems. The alternators came with...

• Go for a driving job with Heronfreight, and you will have to come up with more than just an HGV licence and two references....

• Commercial Motor readers have voted Sealink's Dover to Calais service their favourite ferry crossing. You gave the route 45%...

• One novice HGV driver spent most of his time learning to drive an artic in a public car park. Another was taught by an...

when unqualified and unprofessional instructors are in control of lethal pieces of kit?" asked one angry training school....

• You don't have to be a history professor to know that the Spanish Armada came to a pretty sticky end in 1558, when Sir...

high-roof/air-suspended sleeper cab, air conditioning, a programmable night heater, heated mirrors and driver's seat, twin...

SIR MISUNDERSTANDING IN The "Weight for it" feature which appeared in the 3-9 May edition of Commercial Motor contained a...